On a sunny day (Mon, 23 Apr 2018 12:46:05 +0100) it happened The Natural
Philosopher  wrote in :
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>I seem to remember an 8086 instruction to copy DX register number of
>words from the memeory space pointed to by one index register to the
>memory space pointed to by another...REP MOVSW???
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>And COBOL was invented in the days when 4K of RAM was a LOT of ferrite...
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>I just looked at a handful of short utility programs I have written to
>gather data off the internet and so on
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>14k-20k is the average length..BUT of course these days one has
>dynamically loaded libraries to interface to MYSQL, CURL and the like...:-)
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>the ones that include statically linked libraries written in c++ are 500k...

When programming those little Microchip PIC microcontrollers,
as I use a lot, I needed an UDP stack ethernet interface, wrote something from
the spec:
usa2-0.3.asm
  Program Memory Words Used: 3441
   http://panteltje.com/panteltje/pic/step_pic_udp/index.html
Been using that UDP stack for all sort of things, sensors, light control.

It all does not HAVE to be big.

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